2005/178/EC:  Commission Recommendation of 1 March 2005 concerning a coordinated Community monitoring programme for 2005 to ensure compliance with maximum levels of pesticide residues in and on cereals and certain other products of plant origin and national monitoring programmes for 2006Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2005-03-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: baby food, cereals, crop production, food inspection, food safety, pesticide residue, plant health control, plant health legislation

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COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION

of 1 March 2005

concerning a coordinated Community monitoring programme for 2005 to ensure compliance with
maximum levels of pesticide residues in and on cereals and certain other products of plant origin
and national monitoring programmes for 2006

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/178/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

using these data for the estimation of actual dietary
exposure to them.

Having regard to the Treaty
Community, and in particular Article 211 thereof,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 86/362/EEC of 24 July 1986
on the fixing of maximum levels for pesticide residues in and
on cereals (1), and in particular Article 7(2)(b) thereof,

to

regard

Council Directive

of
Having
27 November 1990 on the fixing of maximum levels for
pesticide residues in and on certain products of plant origin,
including fruit and vegetables (2), and in particular Article 4(2)(b)
thereof,

90/642/EEC

Whereas:

(1)

Directives 86/362/EEC and 90/642/EEC provide that the
Commission should progressively work towards a system
which would permit the estimation of dietary exposure
to pesticides. To make realistic estimations possible, data
on the monitoring of pesticide residues
should be
available in a number of food products which constitute
major components of the European diet. It is generally
recognised that major components of the European diet
are constituted by some 20 to 30 food products. In view
of the resources available at national level for pesticide
residue monitoring, Member States are only able to
analyse samples of eight products each year within a
coordinated monitoring programme.
Pesticide uses
show changes within the timescale of three-year cycles.
Each pesticide should thus generally be monitored in 20
to 30 food products over a series of three-year cycles.

(3)

(4)

(5)

A systematic statistical approach to numbers of samples
to be taken in each coordinated monitoring exercise is
necessary. Such an approach has been set out by the
the Codex Alimentarius (3). On the
Commission of
basis of a binomial probability distribution,
it can be
calculated that examination of 613 samples allows with
a certainty of more than 99 %, the detection of a sample
containing pesticide residues above the limit of determi-
nation (LOD), provided that less than 1 % of products of
plant origin contain residues above that limit. Collection
of these samples should be apportioned between Member
States on the basis of population and consumer numbers,
with a minimum of 12 samples per product and per
year.

are

residue

analysis

Guidelines concerning quality control procedures for
pesticide
the
Commission website (4). It is agreed that these guidelines
should be applied as far as possible by the analytical
laboratories of
the Member States and should be
reviewed continuously in the light of experience gained
in the monitoring programmes.

published

on

inspection programmes.

Directives 86/362/EEC and 90/642/EEC require Member
States to specify the criteria applied in drawing up their
national
Such information
should include the criteria applied in determining the
numbers of samples to be taken and analyses to be
carried out and the reporting levels applied, the criteria
by which the reporting levels have been fixed and details
of accreditation under Council Directive 93/99/EEC of
29 October 1993 on the
additional
measures concerning the official control of foodstuffs (5)
of the laboratories carrying out analyses. The number
and type of infringements and the action taken should
also be indicated.

subject of

(2)

Residues of the pesticides covered by this Recommen-
dation should be monitored in 2005, as this will allow

(1) OJ L 221, 7.8.1986, p. 37. Directive as

last amended by
Commission Directive 2004/61/EC (OJ L 127, 29.4.2004, p. 81).
(2) OJ L 350, 14.12.1990, p. 71. Directive as last amended by
Commission Directive 2004/115/EC (OJ L 374, 22.12.2004, p. 64).

(3) Codex Alimentarius, ‘Pesticide Residues in Foodstuffs’, Rome, 1994,

ISBN 92-5-203271-1, volume 2, p. 372.

(4) Document

number

SANCO/10476/2003,

http://europa.eu.int/

comm/food/plant/protection/resources/qualcontrol_en.pdf

(5) OJ L 290, 24.11.1993, p. 14. Directive as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

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(6)

(7)

Maximum residue levels for baby food have been estab-
lished in accordance with Article 6 of Commission
Directive 91/321/EEC of 14 May 1991 on infant
formulae and follow-on formulae (1) and Article 6 of
of
Commission
16 February 1996 on processed cereal-based foods and
baby foods for infants and young children (2).

Directive

96/5/EC,

Euratom

Information on the results of monitoring programmes is
particularly appropriate for treatment, storage and trans-
mission by electronic/informatic methods. Formats have
been developed for supply of data by e-mail from the
to the Commission. Member States
Member States
should therefore be able to send their reports to the
Commission in the standard format. The further devel-
opment of such a standard format is most effectively
undertaken by the development of guidelines by the
Commission.

(8)

The measures provided for in this recommendation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee
on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

HEREBY RECOMMENDS:

1. Member States are invited, during the year 2005, to take and
analyse samples for the product/pesticide residue combi-
nations set out in Annex I, on the basis of the number of
samples of each product allocated to them in Annex II,
reflecting as appropriate, national, Community and third
country share of the Member State’s market.

Preferably for pesticides posing an acute risk, e.g. OP-esters,
endosulfan and N-methylcarbamates, reasonable number of
samples of the products: pears, potatoes, carrots, oranges or
mandarines, and cucumbers should also be subjected to indi-
vidual analysis of
in the second
laboratory sample in case such pesticides are detected and
particularly if it is the produce of a single producer. The
number of units
should be in line with Commission
Directive 2002/63/EC (3).

the individual units

Two samples should be taken. If the first laboratory sample
contains a detectable residue of a targeted pesticide, the units
of the second sample should be analysed individually.

At least 10 samples of baby food based mainly on vege-
tables, fruits or cereals should be taken by each Member
States.

Samples should be taken from produce originating from
organic farming. The number of samples should be in
proportion to the market share of organic produce in each
Member State, with a minimum of one sample.

2. Member States are invited to report

the
analysis of samples tested for the product/pesticide residue
combinations set out in Annex I by 31 August 2006 at the
latest, indicating:

the results of

(a)

analytical methods used and reporting levels
the
achieved,
control
in accordance with the quality
procedures set out in the Quality Control Procedures
for Pesticide Residue Analysis;

(b) the number and type of infringements and the action

taken.

The report should be produced in a format, including the
electronic format, conforming to the guidance to the
of
Member
regard
coordinated
recommendations
Commission
Community monitoring programmes provided by
the
Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health.

to
concerning

implementation

States with

The result on samples taken from produce originating from
organic farming should be reported in a separate datasheet.

3. Member States are invited to send to the Commission and to
the other Member States, by 31 August 2005 at the latest,
the information required under Article 7(3) of Directive
86/362/EEC and Article 4(3) of Directive 90/642/EEC
concerning the 2004 monitoring exercise to ensure, at
least by check sampling,
compliance with maximum
pesticide residue levels including:

(a)

the results of
pesticide residues;

their national programmes concerning

(b) information on their

laboratories

in particular,

quality
control
information concerning
procedures and,
aspects of
the guidelines concerning quality control
procedures for pesticide residue analysis which they
have not been able to apply or have had difficulty in
applying;

(1) OJ L 175, 4.7.1991, p. 35. Directive as last amended by Directive

2003/14/EC (OJ L 41, 14.2.2003, p. 37).

(2) OJ L 49, 28.2.1996, p. 17. Directive as last amended by Directive

2003/13/EC (OJ L 41, 14.2.2003, p. 33).

(3) OJ L 187, 16.7.2002, p. 30.

(c)

information on accreditation in accordance with the
provisions
of Article 3 of Directive 93/99/EEC
(including type of accreditation, accreditation body and
copy of accreditation certificate) of
the laboratories
carrying out the analyses;

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(d) information about the proficiency tests and ring tests in

(b) the reporting levels applied and the criteria by which the

which the laboratory has participated.

reporting levels have been fixed; and

4. Member States are invited to send to the Commission, by
30 September 2005 at the latest, their intended national
programme for monitoring maximum pesticide residue
levels fixed by Directives 90/642/EEC and 86/362/EEC for
the year 2006, including information on:

(c) details of accreditation, under Directive 93/99/EEC of the

laboratories carrying out analyses.

Done at Brussels, 1 March 2005.

(a)

the criteria applied in determining the number of
samples to be taken and analyses to be carried out;

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

Pesticide/product combinations to be monitored

Pesticide residue to be analysed for

2005

2006 (*)

2007 (*)

Acephate

Aldicarb

Azinphos-methyl

Azoxystrobin

Benomyl group

Bifenthrin

Bromopropylate

Bupirimate

Captan

Carbaryl

Chlormequat (**)

Chlorothalonil

Chlorpropham

Chlorpyriphos

Chlorpyriphos-methyl

Cypermethrin

Cyprodinil

Deltamethrin

Diazinon

Dichlofluanid

Dicofol

Dimethoate

Diphenylamine (***)

Endosulfan

Fenhexamid

Fludioxonil

Folpet

Imazalil

Imidacloprid

Iprodione

Kresoxim-methyl

Lambda-cyhalothrin

Malathion

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

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Pesticide residue to be analysed for

2005

2006 (*)

2007 (*)

Maneb group

Metalaxyl

Methamidophos

Methidathion

Methiocarb

Methomyl

Myclobutanil

Oxydemeton-methyl

Parathion

Phosalone

Pirimicarb

Pirimiphos-methyl

Procymidone

Propargite

Pyretrins

Pyrimethanil

Spiroxamine

Thiabendazole

Tolcloflos-methyl

Tolylfluanid

Triadimefon

Vinclozolin

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(b)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(c)

(a)
(b)
(c)

Pears, beans (fresh or frozen), potatoes, carrots, oranges or mandarines, spinach (fresh or frozen), rice and cucumber.
Cauliflower, peppers, wheat, aubergines, grapes, peas (fresh/frozen, without pod), bananas and orange juice.
Apples, tomatoes, lettuce, strawberries, leek, head cabbage, rye or oats, peaches including nectarines and similar hybrids.

Indicative for 2006 and 2007, subject to programmes which will be recommended for these years.

(*)
(**) Chlormequat should be analysed in pears and cereals only.
(***) Diphenylamine should be analysed in apples and pears only.

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Number of samples of each product to be taken by each Member State

ANNEX II

Code country

Samples

Code country

Samples

AT

BE

CY

CZ

DE

DK

ES

EE

EL

FR

FI

HU

12

12

12

12

93

12

45

12

12

66

12

12

IT

IE

LU

LT

LV

MT

NL

PT

PL

SE

SI

SK

UK

65

12

12

12

12

12

17

12

45

12

12

12

66

Total number of samples: 613